Will and Circumstance and the Postwar Study of Canada's Foreign Policy

Abstract

Modern political science rejects, correctly, the notion that one man can make his country's foreign policy just as he pleases. Modern political science asserts, correctly, that behind every ‘output,’ or policy decision, there lurk a dozen ‘inputs’ – the economy, opinion, military might and morale, political structure, political culture, competing elites, and all the others – that constrain the would-be foreign policymaker on horseback.